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Reading
of new book set for April 17

A
reading of Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing,
Service-Learning, and the University is
planned for 4 p.m. April 17 in the Cora I. Grove Spiritual Center adjacent to
Shippensburg University.

The free program, open to the public, is sponsored
by the university’s Department
of English and the Professional Development Committee.

Participating are Dr. Laurie JC Cella, associate
professor of English and director of first-year writing and co-editor of the
book; Dr. Jessica Restaino, director of first-year writing at Montclair
University and co-editor of the book; and Dr. Karen Johnson, director of the
Writing Studio at Shippensburg and a contributor to the book.

The
book is a collection of essays by a number of scholar-practitioners in the
field, and explores short-lived university/community writing projects in an
effort to rethink the long-held “gold standard” of long-term sustainability in
community writing work. The volume’s contributors examine their own efforts in
order to provide alternate models for understanding, assessing, and enacting
university/community writing projects that, for a range of reasons, fall
outside of traditional practice.